Whether you’re engraving perfume bottles at a brand activation or hand-lettering wedding place cards that’ll end up in scrapbooks for years to come—what you do is magic. You make moments more meaningful. More beautiful. More memorable.

But let’s be honest: when it comes to marketing that artistry? The magic kind of vanishes. Suddenly, the thing that brings you joy turns into a never-ending to-do list filled with Instagram captions, hashtags, and one too many browser tabs about “how to attract more calligraphy clients.”

And it’s not your fault. You became an artist to create not to spend your evenings building marketing funnels or learning the latest social media algorithm.

The good news is that with the right marketing plan and tools, marketing your calligraphy or live event business can actually feel as aligned as your lettering. And in this post, we’ll walk you through how to simplify your strategy, schedule your content, and use Enji to show up consistently without losing your creative spark (or your weekend).

We’re covering:

• How to create a marketing plan that’s simple enough for your creative business
• Scheduling your marketing (so you can ditch the guilt)
• How to track what marketing efforts are paying off
• A booking season strategy for your calligraphy/live events business

Step 1: Start With a Simple but Strategic Marketing Plan

Before you dive into batching Reels or hunting for the perfect trending audio, take a beat. The first step in marketing your calligraphy or live event artistry isn’t doing more, it’s getting clear on where you’re headed and who you’re trying to reach. And that means step 1 is to create a marketing plan.

We’re talking about a strategy-first approach—but that doesn’t mean it’s complicated! It just means your marketing plan is designed around your goals, your dream clients, and your (very real) time limits. So right now, you have a few decisions to make.

What are your marketing goals? 

Are you trying to:

• Get booked for more weddings or brand activations?
• Build a waitlist of engaged couples or event planners?
• Grow your brand recognition in the corporate gifting space?
• Get seen by more PR agencies, luxury venues, or marketing teams?

Who are your ideal clients?

Your marketing needs to speak directly to the clients you actually want more of. That might be:

• Wedding planners looking for a trusted calligrapher to elevate their events
• Brides or grooms who care about custom details and entertainment for their guests
• Event professionals at high-end wineries, luxury hotels, or boutique event spaces
• Corporate marketing teams planning branded activations at stores like Sephora, Nordstrom, or Anthropologie
• Gifting companies or agencies creating elevated client experiences with live engraving or calligraphy onsite

Where are your ideal clients spending time online and in real life?

Once you’ve nailed your goals and your ideal clients, it’s time to focus on the channels that will actually move the needle. For many calligraphers and live artists, that means:

• Instagram (especially Stories and Reels for event BTS)
• Pinterest (for evergreen portfolio content and search)
• Email (for warm follow-ups and availability announcements)
• Your website (yes, it still matters—especially for SEO and high-end clients)

Pro tip: Let Enji create a marketing plan for you! Instead of spinning your wheels trying to cobble together a plan, log into your Enji account and use the Marketing Strategy Generator. When you answer a few questions about you, your business, your goals, and your clients, it’ll personalize a simple but focused marketing strategy based on what you told it.

Danison of Bowtie and Brush started using Enji to market his engraving and live-illustration business and it helped him make the shift! Watch this Reel to hear it straight from him!

Step 2: Schedule Your Social Media Posts So It’s Not Hanging Over You

Posting consistently is one of the hardest parts of marketing your art. You’re juggling client projects, event prep, shipping timelines, emails, and (oh yeah) trying to stay creative. Social media often gets pushed to “later”...which usually turns into never.

The easiest thing you can do to take the pressure off is start scheduling your content ahead of time.

Here are a few content ideas to get you started:

• Behind-the-scenes videos of events
• Calligraphy in action (bonus points for satisfying audio or ASMR-style clips)
• Client reactions + testimonials
• Flatlays of your finished work
• “How it’s made” content
• “Now booking for…” reminders

Try our free AI Idea Generator for social media posts!

How to schedule your marketing content in Enji

Enji was literally (accurate use of the word) designed to make it simple to plan ahead and show up like clockwork without giving up your days off to “content batching”. Here’s a workflow to help you make it easier:

1. Use the Idea Generator to brainstorm post topics.
2. Batch-write your captions with the AI Copywriter.
3. Schedule your posts using the drag-and-drop Social Media Scheduler.
4. Let Enji auto-publish your posts on Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and more.

Pro Tip: If you care about how your grid looks (because let’s be real, your work is visual!), use Enji’s Instagram feed preview! It adds grey “spacer” blocks to preview how your Instagram feed will look before anything goes live. It’s especially helpful for aesthetic-forward brands.

Step 3: Track What Marketing is Working for You 

Once your posts are scheduled and going out consistently, there’s one last piece of the puzzle: knowing what’s actually working. 

But the truth is, most small business owners either: obsess over metrics they don’t fully understand (hello, “reach” and “engagement rate”) or avoid the data completely because it feels overwhelming.

Let’s skip both extremes. Because tracking your marketing metrics makes you 1.5x more likely to feel confident about your marketing and actually using the data to make decisions makes are 2.8x more likely! (Where did we get those numbers? From our State of Small Biz Report!)

What you really need is a quick, clear way to see what’s getting results so you can do more of what’s working and stop wasting time on what’s not. That’s where Enji’s KPI Dashboard comes in. With high-level insights and simple visuals (no spreadsheets required), you can check in monthly and feel good about where your effort is going.

We also integrate with a lot of your favorite tools so your numbers are updated automatically (you just have to promise to check them!). 

You don’t need to become a data nerd overnight. But when you have the right tools to track your marketing, even just at a glance, you can make smart decisions without second-guessing everything.

A Simple Booking Season Marketing Strategy for Artists

Every artist has a busy season—and if you’re doing calligraphy or live event work, chances are your calendar fills up fast (or at least, you want it to). Whether it’s wedding season, corporate holiday gifting, or high-end brand activations, booking season is important. So important we’ve created a marketing campaign template for it.

Here’s a simple starting point to help you map out your booking season strategy.

Start with timing.

Look back at the past year. When do inquiries typically come in? Are couples reaching out in January after the holidays? Are corporate clients planning events in spring or fall? Does gifting season pick up in Q4?

Once you know your rhythm, build your marketing plan around it. 

Use the “Booking Season” marketing campaign template in Enji.

No need to DIY this or create a plan from scratch. Inside Enji, you’ll find a pre-built marketing campaign for Booking Season that’s already mapped out with tasks, suggested post ideas, and reminders so you don’t have to guess what to do next. Keep what you want and remove the rest!

You can use it to:

• Finalize your to dos
• Track your progress towards your targets
• Track your spending
• Leave your future self notes about what worked so you can do a better job next year

Ready to Market Your Calligraphy or Live Event Business with Less Stress?

At the end of the day, your business thrives when people see your work—but more importantly, when they connect with it. Marketing doesn’t need to be complicated, overwhelming, or something you avoid until you’re deep in an off-season scramble.

With the right tools and just a little bit of structure, you can show up consistently, stay top of mind with dream clients, and make booking season feel a whole lot less chaotic.

That’s what Enji was built for.

Whether you need help building a strategy, batching captions, scheduling posts, or tracking results, Enji gives you one clear, easy-to-use place to manage all of it so you can spend less time guessing and more time doing what you love.

Head here to learn even more ways Enji can support your calligraphy or live event business with real tools designed for real small business owners like you.

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Tayler Cusick Hollman

Enji Founder and Small Business Marketing Expert

Tayler is one of the Founders of Enji (marketing tools for small business owners who need to plan, do, and review it themselves). With over a decade of marketing experience, she has helped thousands of small business owners create simple marketing plans that help them get results. When she isn't thinking about how to solve the "I do my own marketing" problem, you'll find her skiing, mountain biking, or climbing rocks somewhere.

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